KABUL, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Afghan authorities officially inaugurated two newly renovated school buildings in Zebak district, located in the northern Badakhshan province, marking a significant step in ...

Rehabilitation of Irrigation Canals Restores Livelihoods in Badakhshan, Helping Farmers Replace Poppy with Sustainable ...

KABUL, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police have arrested an individual on charges of drug smuggling and confiscated 16 kg of opium in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, provincial police ...

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan’s vast and remote northern province of Badakhshan -- which straddles the borders with Pakistan, China, and Tajikistan -- was once a bastion of resistance to the ...

A suicide bomber targeted a memorial service in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, officials said. A former Taliban police official was among those ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber killed a provincial council member in northeast Kunar province, while a daylong gun battle in neighboring Badakhshan province left four civilians dead and ...

In its latest video that celebrates the signing of the agreement that facilitates the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban promotes the training of its “commandos” at a camp in the ...

An Afghan border policeman leads U.S. soldiers down a dirt road in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, June 3, 2012. (DoD) As bombing in Northern Afghanistan’s ...

Residents of two remote districts in the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan have demanded more accountability and better treatment from the authorities after a Taliban crackdown on protests ...

ISLAMABAD — A Russian private jet carrying six people crashed in a remote area of rural Afghanistan but the pilot and some of the others on board survived, the Taliban said Sunday. The crash happened ...

The Seday-e-Banowan [Women's Voice] radio station has resumed operations after being suspended for a week. The Afghanistan Journalists Center said that the suspension sets a dangerous precedent. This ...

CHAKARAN, Afghanistan — In one of the most remote places in Afghanistan, government forces this month managed to achieve something vanishingly rare these days: They clawed back not one but three ...